Nobody 764
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Nobody # 764
Nobody Asked Me But:
My bad!!!
When I wrote my Book of Answers in 2001, one of my responses was incomplete. I want to correct that.
Q# 156 - On an airplane, you are talking pleasantly to a (woman) stranger of average appearance. Unexpectedly, the woman offers you $10,000 for one night of sex. Knowing that there is no danger and that the payment is certain, would you accept her offer?
What I failed to include in my original answer was that this identical situation happened to me at least a half-dozen times when I was single. I was always a nice guy and said yes, but regrettably, each time afterwards I blew the entire $10,000 on wine and song.<<<
The latest Turner scientific survey finds that:
In 60% of all cell phone conversations, one of the parties is driving a car. In the other 40%, one of the parties is crossing in a pedestrian crosswalk.<<<
Evaluating teachers is not as complicated as many make it out to be. And those doing the evaluating don’t need to rely on test results. They simply need to apply the Supreme Court’s obscenity rule to bad teaching - hard to define but you know it when you see it.
As for good teaching, it is like beauty. Once again, you can’t define it, but you immediately recognize it.<<<
Here’s something what bothers me a lot. And it applies to not only the auto industry but to many other businesses both national and local.
1. Some level of government passes a law. Lets say it’s about environmental protection and that it has a deadline.
2. Those businesses to which the law applies drag their feet.
3. Then, as the deadline approaches, they find an excuse for not being able to meet it.
4. The government backs down.<<<
In a recent column, David Brooks divides the first cause debate (no, not creation, current financial debacle) into greed v stupidity. He chooses stupidity. I say a combination thereof.<<<
If you are wondering why New Orleans is not suffering from the recession nearly as much as the rest of the country, check out the huge number of Federal dollars that are being poured into its reconstruction. Could it be that conservative Republicans are wrong again and that New Deal type stimuli really works?<<<
GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES – ONE MORE TIME
Yes, we used to be the world's model for building fine cars. What happened? I think that along with poor management and a greedy union it was workers losing their edge - much like our country in general has lost some of its edge. I believe this happens to any society, group or organization when complacency replaces ambition. Hopefully we can all get our "IT" back.<<<
READY TO GO ON A GILT TRIP?
For 350 UK pounds you can try an Umo 24-carat fold facial. Using the latest in Japanese technology, a therapist will first slather you with Gamma PGA (a potent hydrating compound) followed by an ultrasonic nano mist spray that releases negative ions to prepare your skin for the good stuff. After manual lymphatic drainage, pure 24-carat sheets are placed over your face, followed by more nano mist and a gentle massage until your skin absorbs all the gold.
And you thought you had to settle for a Goldfinger.<<<
Bristol’s ex-fiancé speaks out – says the practiced safe sex “most of the time.” And all this time I thought they only did it once.<<<
Color me uninformed (I seem to be writing this a lot lately): White Oak Street is just a few blocks west of our house. I have always loved the Deodar cedars lining the several blocks north of San Jose St. But I did not know that several scenes of E.T. were filmed there. (The ones with the flying bicycle.)<<<
THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE: 1) You believe in Santa Claus. 2) You don't believe in Santa Claus. 3) You are Santa Claus. 4) You look like Santa Claus. (But only if Santa has lost a little hair.)<<<
Ah, the desert. One of the first questions new Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller’s son asked when he learned they were coming west was “Does Tucson have grass?”<<<
And don’t misunderstand me. I think Sean Miller is an excellent hire by UA. But if, as they are saying, he is their” dream choice,” why did they try for so many others ahead of him?<<<
FORGETTING THE JUST IN JUSTICE
Phillip Alpert had a sixteen-year-old girlfriend. Being into the new teen rage, sexting, she e-mailed a naked picture of herself to him. Sometime later they had a fight. A vengeful Phillip sent the picture to her family and friends. Does this make him a sex offender – right there with the peepers and pedophiles? Florida says yes.
But Florida is wrong. Alpert deserves a public scorning in the town square for being criminally stupid, but he is not a sex offender. He should not he have to carry that abominable label on his back for the rest of his life.
Inflexible laws and inflexible sentencing, are short cuts that mock justice.<<<
So Chief Justice Roberts hates the “sordid business” of “divvying us up by race.”
Me too. But I hate the sordid business of unequal opportunity even more.<<<
THIS WEEK’S ARROWS
UP - President Obama for announcing that he will follow through on his campaign promise by initiating a debate that will lead to a new and better immigration policy and legal status for 12 million illegals.
DOWN – The shock to the American psyche. Can Americans handle a president who keeps his campaign promises?
DOWN – Republicans who say they will seek to mobilize popular outrage against any effort to legalize unauthorized immigrant workers. One was heard to say: “Elections! We don’t need to win no stinki’n elections.”
DOWN – the federal prosecutors who allowed the obviously guilty former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens to go free with their pre-trial misconduct. (Withholding evidence.) I think they deserve 40 lashes with the Bill of Rights while chanting “no convictions without due process.”
FAR DOWN – The ten priests who claim that Notre Dame is risking its soul by allowing President Obama to speak.
Almost as far DOWN as you can get – The LA Times for prostituting journalism by running ads ON THEIR FRONT PAGE!
Even farther DOWN than that: America’s illicit love affair with guns and the mass murders that are becoming almost daily occurrences. It is true that guns don’t kill people, but people without guns don’t kill very many either.<<<
Austin Peay is a small university in Tennessee. Their best know basketball star was James, “Fly” Williams, a high scorer, who had a brief career in the NBA and who Wikipedia names on of the 50 best streetballers of all time. But he is better remembered as the inspiration for inspiring one of the 50 best student body cheers of all time:
THE FLY IS OPEN! LET'S GO PEAY!!!<<<
No Nobody next week as we will be in NoCal drinking red, eating great food and enjoying the wonderful world of elsewhere.<<<
Nobody # 764
Nobody Asked Me But:
My bad!!!
When I wrote my Book of Answers in 2001, one of my responses was incomplete. I want to correct that.
Q# 156 - On an airplane, you are talking pleasantly to a (woman) stranger of average appearance. Unexpectedly, the woman offers you $10,000 for one night of sex. Knowing that there is no danger and that the payment is certain, would you accept her offer?
What I failed to include in my original answer was that this identical situation happened to me at least a half-dozen times when I was single. I was always a nice guy and said yes, but regrettably, each time afterwards I blew the entire $10,000 on wine and song.<<<
The latest Turner scientific survey finds that:
In 60% of all cell phone conversations, one of the parties is driving a car. In the other 40%, one of the parties is crossing in a pedestrian crosswalk.<<<
Evaluating teachers is not as complicated as many make it out to be. And those doing the evaluating don’t need to rely on test results. They simply need to apply the Supreme Court’s obscenity rule to bad teaching - hard to define but you know it when you see it.
As for good teaching, it is like beauty. Once again, you can’t define it, but you immediately recognize it.<<<
Here’s something what bothers me a lot. And it applies to not only the auto industry but to many other businesses both national and local.
1. Some level of government passes a law. Lets say it’s about environmental protection and that it has a deadline.
2. Those businesses to which the law applies drag their feet.
3. Then, as the deadline approaches, they find an excuse for not being able to meet it.
4. The government backs down.<<<
In a recent column, David Brooks divides the first cause debate (no, not creation, current financial debacle) into greed v stupidity. He chooses stupidity. I say a combination thereof.<<<
If you are wondering why New Orleans is not suffering from the recession nearly as much as the rest of the country, check out the huge number of Federal dollars that are being poured into its reconstruction. Could it be that conservative Republicans are wrong again and that New Deal type stimuli really works?<<<
GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES – ONE MORE TIME
Yes, we used to be the world's model for building fine cars. What happened? I think that along with poor management and a greedy union it was workers losing their edge - much like our country in general has lost some of its edge. I believe this happens to any society, group or organization when complacency replaces ambition. Hopefully we can all get our "IT" back.<<<
READY TO GO ON A GILT TRIP?
For 350 UK pounds you can try an Umo 24-carat fold facial. Using the latest in Japanese technology, a therapist will first slather you with Gamma PGA (a potent hydrating compound) followed by an ultrasonic nano mist spray that releases negative ions to prepare your skin for the good stuff. After manual lymphatic drainage, pure 24-carat sheets are placed over your face, followed by more nano mist and a gentle massage until your skin absorbs all the gold.
And you thought you had to settle for a Goldfinger.<<<
Bristol’s ex-fiancé speaks out – says the practiced safe sex “most of the time.” And all this time I thought they only did it once.<<<
Color me uninformed (I seem to be writing this a lot lately): White Oak Street is just a few blocks west of our house. I have always loved the Deodar cedars lining the several blocks north of San Jose St. But I did not know that several scenes of E.T. were filmed there. (The ones with the flying bicycle.)<<<
THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE: 1) You believe in Santa Claus. 2) You don't believe in Santa Claus. 3) You are Santa Claus. 4) You look like Santa Claus. (But only if Santa has lost a little hair.)<<<
Ah, the desert. One of the first questions new Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller’s son asked when he learned they were coming west was “Does Tucson have grass?”<<<
And don’t misunderstand me. I think Sean Miller is an excellent hire by UA. But if, as they are saying, he is their” dream choice,” why did they try for so many others ahead of him?<<<
FORGETTING THE JUST IN JUSTICE
Phillip Alpert had a sixteen-year-old girlfriend. Being into the new teen rage, sexting, she e-mailed a naked picture of herself to him. Sometime later they had a fight. A vengeful Phillip sent the picture to her family and friends. Does this make him a sex offender – right there with the peepers and pedophiles? Florida says yes.
But Florida is wrong. Alpert deserves a public scorning in the town square for being criminally stupid, but he is not a sex offender. He should not he have to carry that abominable label on his back for the rest of his life.
Inflexible laws and inflexible sentencing, are short cuts that mock justice.<<<
So Chief Justice Roberts hates the “sordid business” of “divvying us up by race.”
Me too. But I hate the sordid business of unequal opportunity even more.<<<
THIS WEEK’S ARROWS
UP - President Obama for announcing that he will follow through on his campaign promise by initiating a debate that will lead to a new and better immigration policy and legal status for 12 million illegals.
DOWN – The shock to the American psyche. Can Americans handle a president who keeps his campaign promises?
DOWN – Republicans who say they will seek to mobilize popular outrage against any effort to legalize unauthorized immigrant workers. One was heard to say: “Elections! We don’t need to win no stinki’n elections.”
DOWN – the federal prosecutors who allowed the obviously guilty former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens to go free with their pre-trial misconduct. (Withholding evidence.) I think they deserve 40 lashes with the Bill of Rights while chanting “no convictions without due process.”
FAR DOWN – The ten priests who claim that Notre Dame is risking its soul by allowing President Obama to speak.
Almost as far DOWN as you can get – The LA Times for prostituting journalism by running ads ON THEIR FRONT PAGE!
Even farther DOWN than that: America’s illicit love affair with guns and the mass murders that are becoming almost daily occurrences. It is true that guns don’t kill people, but people without guns don’t kill very many either.<<<
Austin Peay is a small university in Tennessee. Their best know basketball star was James, “Fly” Williams, a high scorer, who had a brief career in the NBA and who Wikipedia names on of the 50 best streetballers of all time. But he is better remembered as the inspiration for inspiring one of the 50 best student body cheers of all time:
THE FLY IS OPEN! LET'S GO PEAY!!!<<<
No Nobody next week as we will be in NoCal drinking red, eating great food and enjoying the wonderful world of elsewhere.<<<
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